House Democrats Urge Speaker Johnson to Cancel Fall Recess Until Congress Passes AI Safeguards

A letter drafted by Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and co-signed by Reps. George Whitesides, Lori Trahan and Ted Lieu urges Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the House back immediately and keep it in session until Congress passes AI safeguards, calling out 'catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.' The letter caps a week of escalating hill panic after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly warned AI could 'kill us all by the end of the decade.' Johnson has signaled he will move a narrow data-center bill next week but no broader AI framework.